I am noticing massive institutional resistance to the grassroots-favored candidates on both the right and the left… neither Ron Paul, nor Gravel and Kucinich are getting any respect from the establishment, nor equal opportunity to go to the debates. Edwards is barely getting the time of day.
Agreed, the establishment politicos and its cheerleading corporate media and DC establishment class don't want a grass roots movement for Ron Paul, John Edwards or Mike Huckabee for that matter. These candidates are loose canons that question some of the corporate doctrine that rules this country. That is why the Chris Matthews and pundit class media (who are almost always wrong, BTW) more than anything want to rush the primaries and coronate their favorites, MCcain, Romney or Obama, and less so Hillary even though she is also a corporate mouthpiece. the fact is that a real outsider has a very tough row to go against the millions of dollars being provided by the insurance, wall street and defense bomb the hell out of em, we got a good contract in Iraq, dollars.
sadly, the beat goes on….